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The "Let's go Brandon" thing was an almost comical attempt by the news reporter to try to cover up what the chant was.
Yes, people said the reporter was "misreporting" the chant but she was barely containing her laughter and it was clearly a joke. Everyone knew what the crowd was chanting.
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Let me introduce a temporary workaround to you https://www.youtubeNSFW.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI
Those kinds of sites don't work. There are no operative workarounds as far as I know.
[youtube] _2khAmMTAjI: Downloading webpage
[youtube] _2khAmMTAjI: Refetching age-gated info webpage
WARNING: unable to download video info webpage: HTTP Error 410: Gone
ERROR: Sign in to confirm your age
This video may be inappropriate for some users.
The following content has been identified by the YouTube community as inappropriate or offensive to some audiences.
Was it really "the community" though?
Anyway, that video doesn't seem very out there at all to me. That the CIA has committed various things most reasonable people would classify as "crimes" and "terrorism" seems like common knowledge to me.
Something is wrong when the king needs to censor the jester.
The jester is basically spreading hate speech and harmful misinformation. There limits to iTs juST a pRAnk
Both undefinable terms that are increasingly being used anytime the current Western establishment wishes to censor speech and silence their opponents.
When the Chinese or Russians do it, we call it out for what it is: censorship and abuse of power. It's even more insidious when it's done in supposedly free societies, because we wrap it up in a bow with these nebulous terms and feign noble intentions.
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Since the government is leaning on them to do it, this is clearly a Constitutional right to free speech issue.
If the social media platforms in question are taking down posts on the recommendations (or demands, take your pick) of the White House's senior staff, then I think it's fair to say that they are State Actor's.
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You can't properly understand something if you can't question it. When you elevate any idea to unquestionable capital-T Truth, you blind yourself to the actual truth. You break the only mechanism we've ever discovered for figuring out how the world actually works. Censorship of anything is the enemy of human progress and always has been.
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You're looking at presented cases and hospitalizations - a fraction of a fraction of total covid infections. There's no way this accurately reflects R0 (assuming that's what you're talking about - sorry if I'm wrong!). And determining the impact vaccines have on R0 is nearly impossible - there's too many unknown unknowns that would confound it. For example, if a flu vaccine was administered at the end of a seasonal p…
First let's deal with the nitpicky semantics. R0 is is the basic reproduction number while R generally denotes the effective reproduction number. I am talking about R. There's indisputable evidence that the vaccination is impacting R. While it's true that the accuracy of estimates for R depends on many factors and certainly there have always been some cases flying under the radar (though that has been studied extensi…
I think you are misusing the word indisputable, since clearly, people are disputing it.
> While it's true that the accuracy of estimates for R depends on many factors and certainly there have always been some cases flying under the radar (though that has been studied extensively via antibody studies and other means) proxies like the number of people dying, the number of people hospitalized, while controlling for things like vaccinations are accurate enough to detect this.
You just listed a number of proxies that are inaccurate, and/or, generally missing.
Why?
Simply because Covid is highly dangerous to the advanced in age, those that express ACE2, and those with multiple co-morbidities, in particular obese diabetics.
For example, a white male 6' 200 lbs with no comorbidities nonsmoker has the following mortality rate by age:
18: 2.1 per 1M
30: 2.1 per 1M
45: 1.6 per 100K
60: 4.3 per 100K
75: 2.2 per 10k
90: 0.7 per 10k
So, while covid may move through a retirement community like the Death Angel, across a team of 16 year old soccer players most will be asymptomatic, and a few may appear to have a cold.
As someone that has had access to a regional hospital system's covid counts, I can assure you that this is not a disease of the very young and fit.
Our surveillance numbers around covid antibodies is incredibly low because it is only a tiny percentage of the population that is getting tested for antibodies. There are more people being tested for active infections, than there are for antibodies.
Indisputable this is not.
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Well established scientific concensus. If you're referring to anything related to Covid there's no well-established scientific consensus it literally just happened around year and a half ago it's impossible to have scientific consensus. Even the most respected scientists are saying they don't know about a lot of things related to covid. also well-established scientific consensus is not an ideal goal post . Galileo wa…
Genuinely asking, how should I evaluate truth in a subject matter that I myself don't have a doctorate in if the standard of "what is general consensus among the people with doctorates in the subject" isn't reasonable?
In most cases, well publicised censorship of art backfires and provides more notoriety and fans for the artist.
Youtube doesn't care. It can't have antivax stuff on their platform because advertisers don't want their ads on controversial content.